Enlightenment Terms and Names

Explain the importance of the following terms and names to the Enlightenment on your own paper.

1. Enlightenment

2.John Locke

3.natural rights

4.philosophes

5.Voltaire

6.Montesquieu

7.Rousseau

8.salons

9.Mary Astell

10.Mary Wollstonecraft

11.despot

12.Frederick II of Prussia

13.Joseph II of Austria

14.Catherine the Great of Russia

15.serfdom

16.Benjamin Franklin

17.Thomas Jefferson

18.Declaration of Independence

19. “All men are created equal.”

20.Articles of Confederation

21.U.S. Bill of Rights

22. Which document from the chart on page 547 guaranteed the most rights for the people?

23. What are the differences between the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution?

24.What are the oldest three rights that had been guaranteed?

25.Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen